Tag: CIBA Book Awards

  • The 2021 I&I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

    The 2021 I&I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

    I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA Badge

    The I & I Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Instruction and Insight non-fiction that are self-help, how-to, guides, or explanatory. In non-fiction works, the author assumes responsibility (in good faith) for the truth, accuracy, people, places, or information presented.  The I & I Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best Instruction and Insight books featuring How-To, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Self-Help, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 I&I Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 I&I Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 I&I Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25h, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Aaron Taylor – Stretching Your Way to a Pain-Free Life: Illustrated Stretches for Sports, Medical Conditions and Specific Muscle Groups
    • Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
    • Brad Borkan and David Hirzel (co-authors) – Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World
    • Brian Dillon – From Ex To Excellence  
    • David Perlmutter – The Encyclopedia Of American Animated Television Shows 
    • David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
    • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
    • Eleanor K. Smith and Margaret Pastor – One School’s Journey – Further Down the Path
    • George Marino, CPA, CFP – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
    • Geraldine Clouston and Susan Weintrob – indieBRAG Eat, Read & Dream Cookbook
    • Jennifer George – Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing 
    • Jim & Jessica Braz – Baby Out of Wedlock  
    • Judy Taylor – Breaking the Boundaries: The Rug Hooking Artistry of Sharon Johnston 
    • Kaitlyn Jain – Passports and Pacifiers? Traveling the World, One Tantrum at a Time 
    • Kelly Tan Peterson, Dan Peterson, MD. – KETO BAKED
    • M. J. Simms-Maddox, Ph.D. – A Handbook for Emerging and Seasoned Authors
    • Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson – Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World
    • Phoebe Walker – Freedom Found – Productive and Joyful Living In Spite of Chronic Pain
    • Rob White – The Maestro Monologue
    • Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
    • Sabbithry Persad – What Is Coronavirus? How It Infects, How It Spreads, and How to Stay Safe
    • Stan Bernard, MD, MBa – BRANDS DON’T WIN: How Transcenders Change the Game
    • Susan Marie Conrad – Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage  
    • Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls   
    • Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
    • Ben R Teeter – Falling Into All
    • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Two 
    • Jan Kaa Kristensen – Splitting Up Without Falling to Pieces
    • Melanie Choukas-Bradley – Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island
    • Vindy Teja – YOLO: Essential Life Hacks for Happiness

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 I&I Awards is Wendela Whitcomb Marsh for Independent Living with Autism: Your Roadmap to Success

    Cover for Independent Living with Autism by Wendela Whitcomb Marsh

    Blue and Gold I & I 2020 Grand Prize Winner Badge for

    Click here to see the 2020 I&I Book Award Winners for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 I&I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

     

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

    Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

  • The 2021 NELLIE BLY Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021

    Nellie Bly Awards

    The Nellie Bly Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Long Form Journalistic and Investigative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Nellie Bly Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards  (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Social Science, Data Driven Reporting, Equality and Justice, Ethics, Human Rights, and Activists Groups. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Nellie Bly Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS position of the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards  for Journalistic Non-Fiction!

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
    • Betty Jean Craige – Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo
    • Burl Harmon – Combat Missions
    • Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
    • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
    • Jim Lichtman – Trust and Confidence
    • Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
    • Martha Bolton with Linda Hope – Dear Bob… Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of WW2
    • Daisy Hernandez – The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
    • Nicole Evelina – America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor
    • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
    • Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
    • Abe Streep – Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
    • Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D. – Advancing the Good Society:  Real Advocacy Journalism in Action
    • Cheng Wang – From Tea to Coffee
    • Grover Nicodemus Street RN, Sandra de Abreu Guidry-Street MD, & Ja-ne de Abreu – Chasing the Surge: Life as a Travel Nurse in a Global Pandemic
    • Hafiz Sheriff – History As I see It And Others

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 NELLIE BLY Awards is William “Mecca” Elmore & Susan Simone for Prison from the Inside Out: One Man’s Journey from a Life Sentence to Freedom

    Cover of Prison from the Inside out by William "Mecca" Elmore & Susan Simone

    Blue and Gold Badge for the Nellie Bly 2020 Grand Prize Winner William "Mecca" Elmore  & Susan Simone PRISON FROM the INSIDE OUT

    Click here to see the 2020 Nellie Bly Book Award Winners for Journalistic Non-Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

    Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

     

  • The 2021 MIND and SPIRIT Book Awards for Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

    Mind and Spirit Non-Fiction Awards CIBA Badge
    Mind and Spirit Non-Fiction

    The Mind and Spirit Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Mind and Spirit Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring enlightenment, motivational/self-help, spirituality, mindfulness, well-being, meditation, and energy. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Mind and Spirit Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Mind and Spirit Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Mind and Spirit Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Mind and Spirit Book Awards novel competition for Enlightenment, Spirituality, and Mindfulness Non-Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Ramzi Najjar – The Ultimate Human Secrets 
    • Mike Lutz – Jesus Speaking
    • Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability
    • Michael Vincent Moore – Mastering your Emotional Heart-Print
    • Beth Gibbs – Enlighten Up!
    • Rosemary A. Schmidt – The Happy Clam
    • Carolyn Lee Arnold – Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir
    • Starr Regan DiCiurcio – Divine Sparks: Interfaith Wisdom for a Postmodern World
    • Ben R Teeter – Falling Into All
    • Randi Benator – Awaken to Your Calling
    • Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
    • George Marino , CPA, CFP – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
    • David Soh Poh Huat – Care Giving Gift of Unconditional Live 
    • David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
    • Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
    • Reagan J. Pasternak – Griffin’s Heart: Mourning Your Pet With No Apologies
    • Carlo Pietro Sanfilippo – AfterLIFE, Waking up from My American Dream
    • Dr. BethAnne K.W. – Revelations of The Sky: 133 passages on the alchemy of grief
    • Ramzi Najjar – The YOU beyond you: The knowledge of the willing
    • Judith Briles – When God Says NO – Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present 
    • Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs
    • Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief
    • Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
    • James Martin – Revelation Through Science

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    Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 Mind and Spirit Awards is Dr. Donna Marks for Exit the Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure

    Cover for Exit the Maze

    Blue and Gold badge for the Mind and Spirit 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Dr. Donna Marks' EXIT the MAZE: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure 

    Click here to see the 2020 Mind and Spirit Book Award Winners

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Mind and Spirit Book Awards for Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

    Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

  • The 2021 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021

    The 2021 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021

    Paranormal Fiction Awards

    The Paranormal Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best books Paranormal books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird otherworldly stories, superhumans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, magical systems and elements. These books have advanced to the Long List  Level of Achievement in the 2021 CIBAs.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Paranormal Supernatural Fiction Long List to the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards novel competition for Supernatural Fiction!

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Avanti Centrae – The Doomsday Medallion
    • Robert Herold – Moonlight Becomes You
    • Rebecca Kightlinger – Megge of Bury Down: The Bury Down Chronicles, Book One
    • Catori Sarmiento – But the Wicked Shall Perish
    • Elizabeth Crowens – The Time Traveler Professor – Book Three: A War in Too Many Worlds
    • J. W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls The Strings
    • Kaylin McFarren – Annihilation
    • K.T. Anglehart – The Wise One
    • AJ Thibault – Ghost Town
    • JP McLean – Blood Mark
    • J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
    • Henry Anderson – Cape Misfortune
    • Miki Mitayn – The Conscious Virus
    • John Stafford – A Hand of Vengeance
    • Daniela Valenti – Sentinel 10: The Crystal Skull
    • PJ Devlin – The Chamber
    • Susan Lynn Solomon – What’s Past is Prologue
    • T.K. Conklin – Outlaw’s Redemption
    • D. J. Adamson – Into the Storm
    • Jonathan Floyd – Lost on the Edge of Eternity
    • David Fitz-Gerald – The Curse of Conchobar
    • Nola Nash – Crescent City Sin
    • Nola Nash – Crescent City Moon

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards novel Supernatural  Fiction!

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 PARANORMAL Awards was Kaylin McFarren for Soul Seeker

     

    Blue and gold badge for the 2020 Paranormal Grand Prize Winner, Kaylin McFarren for Soul Seeker

    Click here to see the 2020 Paranormal Book Award Winners for Supernatural Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

    Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

  • The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Short List 2021

    The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Short List 2021

    Thriller Suspense Fiction Award

    The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Long List to the 2021 Clue Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Congratulations to the 2021 CLUE Book Awards Short Listers! Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs. 

    • Tom Galvin – The Auction
    • Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry – The Family Tree
    • Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destiny
    • Alicia Dill – Beyond Sacrifice
    • Tony Ollivier – The Amsterdam Deception
    • J. Luke Bennecke – Waterborne
    • Jane Rosenthal – Del Rio
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel
    • James A. Ross – Coldwater Revenge
    • John Stafford – Call of Vengeance Series, Book 4: A Hand of Vengeance
    • T.L. Bequette – Good Lookin’: A Joe Turner Mystery
    • Ernesto H Lee – Flawed Beauty
    • Amy S. Peele – Match: A Medical Murder Mystery
    • Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
    • Erik Foge – We Know Your Name
    • Kevin G. Chapman – Fatal Infraction (Mike Stoneman Thriller #4)
    • Rip Converse – Callie Awakens
    • Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
    • D. J. Adamson – Into The Storm
    • Roberta Seret – Gift of Diamonds
    • Mary Keliikoa – Denied
    • Lyle Howard – An Eye For An Eye
    • Laurie Buchanan – Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One
    • Robert Honor – Bogart’s Hat
    • Valerie J. Brooks – Tainted Times 2
    • Shelley Nolden – The Vines
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 CLUE Awards was Chris Karlsen for A Venomous Love

    Cover of A Venemous Love by Chris Karlsen

     

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Clue Awards Badge for Chris Karlsen's A Venomous Love

    Click here to see the 2020 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense/Thriller Mysteries.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Clue Book Awards for Suspense/Thriller Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

    Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

     

  • The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Short List

    The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Short List

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

    The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Looking for middle grade contests? Check out our Gertrude Warner Awards.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Long List to the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalist. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the Semi-FInalists of the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
    • Angela Yeh – A Phoenix Rises
    • Shadow Bleak – Riot Shield
    • B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
    • M.J. Evans – The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII
    • Dan Rice – Dragons Walk Among Us
    • Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
    • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
    • E.A. Allen – Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
    • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
    • Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
    • Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
    • Rick Duffy – The Sigil Masters
    • Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest
    • Strider K – Stone (former title: You Rock my Life)
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
    • Jon Robinson – Sunshine and the Full Moon
    • Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
    • Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
    • Dennis D. Skirvin – The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
    • Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
    • Rebecca Danzenbaker – The Color of My Soul
    • John Thomas Everett – Aesop’s Fox
    • L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
    • Shay Siegel – Fractured

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is Dallas Woodburn for The Best Week That Never Happened

    Cover of The Best Week That Never Happened by Dallas Woodburn

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Winner Badge for the Dante Rossetti Awards for The best week that never happened by Dallas Woodburn

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    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

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  • The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

    The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

    The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Journey Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

    If you have entered your works into the 2021 Journey Book Awards and do not see them in the list below, please visit the other Non-Fiction Book Awards listings:  Nellie Bly, Hearten, Mind & Spirit, Instruction and Insight, or perhaps Harvey Chute Book Awards. The Journey Book Awards have morphed into extreme stories of adversity – some of which were overcome; some that were not. Most of these accounts are intense and some should come with trigger warnings. We have moved some entries into the other non-fiction divisions based on the recommendations of the non-fiction judges.

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Sherry Chapman – How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
    • Tracie White with Ronald W. Davis – The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
    • Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
    • Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
    • Marilyn Mascaro – When the Rivers Flowed
    • Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
    • William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
    • Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
    • Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
    • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
    • George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoire
    • Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
    • Renee K. Nicholson – Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
    • Margaret Thomson – The World Looks Different Now
    • Sylvie Heyman – Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for Identity
    • Kawan Glover – Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose
    • Faith Fuller Wilcox – Hope Is a Bright Star: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
    • George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
    • Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
    • Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
    • Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
    • Krista Nerestant – Indestructible:The Hidden Gifts of Trauma 
    • Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
    • Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
    • Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
    • C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
    • Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
    • Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
    • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
    • Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
    • Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
    • Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability 

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 JOURNEY Awards is Karen Keilt for The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir of  Torture and Corrupti0n in Brazil 

    The cover for The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt

    Blue and Gold Journey Grand Prize Winner Badge for The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt

    Click here to see the 2020 Journey Book Award Winners for Narrative Non-Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Journey Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

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    See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

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    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

  • The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Long List 2021

    The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Long List 2021

    Thriller Suspense Fiction Award

    The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspese and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction entries to the 2021 Clue Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Clue Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Tom Galvin – The Auction
    • Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry – The Family Tree
    • Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destiny
    • Alicia Dill – Beyond Sacrifice
    • Tony Ollivier – The Amsterdam Deception
    • J. Luke Bennecke – Waterborne
    • AJ Thibault – Deadly Serious
    • Jane Rosenthal – Del Rio
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel
    • Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident
    • James A. Ross – Coldwater Revenge
    • John Stafford – Call of Vengeance Series, Book 4: A Hand of Vengeance
    • T.L. Bequette – Good Lookin’: A Joe Turner Mystery
    • Ernesto H Lee – Flawed Beauty
    • Justin M. Kiska – Now & Then
    • Amy S. Peele – Match: A Medical Murder Mystery
    • Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
    • Erik Foge – We Know Your Name
    • Kevin G. Chapman – Fatal Infraction (Mike Stoneman Thriller #4)
    • Rip Converse – Callie Awakens
    • Jule Selbo – 10 Days, A Dee Rommel Mystery
    • Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
    • D. J. Adamson – Into The Storm
    • Roberta Seret – Gift of Diamonds
    • Susan Lynn Solomon – What’s Past is Prologue
    • Rhett C Bruno – The Roach
    • Mary Keliikoa – Denied
    • Lyle Howard – An Eye For An Eye
    • Laurie Buchanan – Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One
    • Robert Honor – Bogart’s Hat
    • Valerie J. Brooks – Tainted Times 2
    • Shelley Nolden – The Vines
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 CLUE Awards was Chris Karlsen for A Venomous Love

    Cover of A Venemous Love by Chris Karlsen

     

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Clue Awards Badge for Chris Karlsen's A Venomous Love

    Click here to see the 2020 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense/Thriller Mysteries.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Clue Book Awards for Suspesnse/Thriller Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

  • The 2021 Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes Suspense – CIBAs Long List 2021

    The 2021 Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes Suspense – CIBAs Long List 2021

    Global Thriller

    The Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Supernatural Fiction. The Global Thriller Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Global Thriller High Stakes Fiction entries to the 2021 Global Thriller Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Global Thriller Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Kristie Clark – Killing Dragons
    • Kristie Clark – Dragon Clan
    • Dimple Patel Desai – The Lambda Factor
    • Paul Mark Tag – Retribution Times Two
    • Timothy S. Johnston – Fatal Depth
    • Ron McManus – The Chameleon
    • Gordon Bickerstaff – Tears of Fire
    • John Stafford – A Hand of Vengeance
    • Andrew Kaplan – Blue Madagascar
    • Roberta Seret – Treasure Seekers
    • Spaulding Taylor – Last Star Standing
    • Norman M. Jacobs, MD, Ms – A Divine Wind
    • Randall Krzak – Mission: Angola (Xavier Sear Thriller Book 1)
    • Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington – Condition Black
    • Avanti Centrae – The Doomsday Medallion
    • E. R. Barr – Gods In The Ruins: A Vatican Archives Thriller
    • Richard Garis – Magenta is Missing
    • Joe McNeil – Confronting the Enemy
    • Kevin Wilde – The Rookie and the Raven
    • J Lawrence Matthews – One Must Tell The Bees
    • Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington – Condition Black

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards was William Maz for The Bucharest Dossier

    Cover of William Maz's The Bucharest Dossier, Chanticleer Grand Prize Global Thrillers Winner 2020

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize badge for William Maz's The Bucharest Dossier

    Click here to see the 2020 Global Thriller Book Award Winners for High Stakes Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

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    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

     

  • The 2021 Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

    The 2021 Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

    The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2021 CIBAs OZMA division.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Ozma Fantasy Fiction entries to the 2021 Ozma Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Ozma Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. 

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Ozma Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Joseph Riddle – The Seventh Talent
    • Susannah Dawn – Battle for the Armor of God
    • Jenn Lees – The Crossing. Arlan’s Pledge Book 1
    • Susan Chapek – The Scarlet Mantle
    • Mario Chavez – The Continuous Loop
    • Kelly Brewer – Water Witch
    • P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
    • David Fitz-Gerald – Waking Up Lost
    • PJ Devlin – The Chamber
    • Laurel Anne Hill – Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846
    • James Priest – Kirins: The Seer of Serone
    • Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask
    • Mary K. Savarese – The Girl in the Toile Wallpaper
    • Allegra Pescatore – Where Shadows Lie
    • Anton Anderson – The Seekers: Soul Ties
    • KC Cowan – Asa’s Redemption
    • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
    • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
    • J.P. Hostetler – Around Curiosity’s Edge: Hidden Meridians
    • L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
    • G.L. Cramb – Druid Quest: Maegics Heir, Book 1
    • Adron J. Smitley – Jinn
    • Mark A. Alvarez II – Dutybound: Light Wings Epic Vol. 1
    • Susan Faw – Heart of Tunise
    • Taylor Fenner – Monsters & Mist
    • S.J. Hartland – The Last Seer King

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 OZMA Awards was Christpher Russell for Rebirth: Divinity’s Twilight

    Click here to see the 2020 Ozma Book Award Winners for Fantasy Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

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    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.